ktbob is right, they took the april 20th issue off of newstands this mornings and replaced it with the april 27th issues. found that out when i went looking. so i called the distributor in my town and they said that the had the unsold april 20th issues at their warehouse but that they couldn't sell them to me because they have to be returned to the regional office (wtf?!?! you guys don't wanna make money, i guess!). so i called the regional office and they won't sell to individuals, only to stores. so i went to a large magazine/comic book/rare book store in town and the owner said that he could buy them for me from the regional distributor. but, right now the copies are sitting in a warehouse in my town, they have to be shipped to a town 200 miles away and then the magazine store guy has to buy them and then they have to be shipped 200 miles back here. the point being, it might take a couple weeks :-(
other than that, i have a mass email out to all my friends and family in case they or anyone they know actually subscribes to those mags and has a copy. and, my mom works at a hospital and people donate mags to the hospital to be put in the waiting rooms (which, conveniently, have to go through my mom's office!) so i have my mom looking out for them in case anyone donates them.
i had 4 different stores tell me that the distributor had literally been there hours ago changing out the issues - aaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!